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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 20: Indian History. (search)
n Englishman into a heathen tongue was printed here; the first Protestant tract in a heathen language was written and printed here. Hist. Lect., p. 67. The result of all these labors up to the year 1674 was described by Gookin, in his Historical Collections of the Indians in New England, printed in the first volume of Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Besides Natick, the most important of all, there were six communities in Massachusetts, exclusive of Plymouth, which had l the gospel. Meantime an earnest effort was made to impart scientific as well as religious knowledge to the Indians, in which commendable work Mr. Eliot was a prominent actor. His labors and their result are described by Gookin in his Historical Collections. Besides preaching and inducing others to preach the Gospel, and translating the Bible and other books into the Indian language, —he took great care that schools should be planted among the praying Indians; and he taught some himself to